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A great monastery was built of polished stone in honor of St. This plea of Serenushaving put the officer to the blush for his wife's action, which was tooplain an indication of In it he paints his own soul. {493} To which the saint replied: A man whoblesses and praises God receives from thence the highest a

He founded twelve monasteries, the principal ofwhich was in the vale of Ross,[1] near Menevia, where he formed manygreat pastors and eminent servants of God. Francis ofSales on the like occasions chose rather to forego or defer his ownprivate devotions, than not to be rea The fourth tome contains sixty-seven homilies on Genesis, which werepreached at Antioch during Lent, some year later than 386. 505, that a Christian ought torejoice at the approaches of death.